ROSE ROOM (IN SUNNY ROSELAND)
(Words by: Harry Williams / Music by: Art Hickman – 1917)
Art Hickman & His Orch. (Instr.) - 1920
Duke Ellington & His Famous Orch. (Instr.) - 1932
Benny Goodman Sextet (Instr.) - 1939
Harry James & His Orch. -1945
Nat King Cole - 1949
Bing Crosby - 1949
Django Reinhardt - 1949
Woody Herman & His Big Band - 1987
Ian Whitcomb - 1997
Uralsky All Stars - 1997
Also recorded by: Earl Hines; Sidney Bechet; Ben Light;
The Baltimore Jazz Factory; Eddie Condon:...and others.
I want to take you to a little room
A little room where all the roses bloom
I want to lead you into Nature's hall
Where ev'ry year the roses give a ball
They have an orchestra up in the trees
For their musicians are the birds and bees
And they will sing us a song
As we are strolling along
In sunny Roseland, where summer breezes are playing
Where the honey bees are "A-Maying"
There all the roses are swaying,
Dancing while the meadow brook flows
The moon when shining is more than ever designing
For `tis ever then I am pining, pining to be sweetly reclining
Somewhere in Roseland
Beside a beautiful rose
The ball is over and the tulips meet
Their little kisses are so short and sweet
The lilies nod to the forgetmenots
When they're departing in their flower pots
But all the roses with their spirits high
Remain to love until they droop and die
And dear, why shouldn't it be
Just so with you and with me
In sunny Roseland, where summer breezes are playing
Where the honey bees are "A-Maying"
There all the roses are swaying
Dancing while the meadow brook flows
The moon when shining is more than ever designing
For `tis ever then I am pining, pining to be sweetly reclining
Somewhere in Roseland
Beside a beautiful rose